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Designing React Hooks the Right Way

By : Fang Jin
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Designing React Hooks the Right Way

By: Fang Jin

Overview of this book

React hook creates a unique solution for using states in function components to orchestrate UI communication. They provide you with an easy interface to write custom data management solutions with low development and maintenance costs. Understanding how Hooks are designed enables you to use them more effectively, and this book helps you to do just that. This book starts with a custom-crafted solution to reveal why Hooks are needed in the first place. You will learn about the React engine and discover how each built-in Hook can manage a persistent value by hooking into it. You will walk through the design and implementation of each hook with code so that you gain a solid understanding. Finally, you'll get to grips with each Hook's pitfalls and find out how to effectively overcome them. By the end of this React book, you'll have gained the confidence to build and write Hooks for developing functional and efficient web applications at scale.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we started with the function of React in web development. We went into three aspects of it. First, we went through the latest ES6 features of JavaScript, such as the arrow function and template strings. Next, we learned the CSS-in-JS approach to bring CSS into JavaScript, using libraries such as styled-JSX and styled-components. Last, but not least, we learned how HTML-like JSX code is transformed and returned as React elements. All in all, we saw how React pulls all these resources together, including JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, to help us build a site.